Companies from India and Greece including ONGC and Energean are among those who have made bids for blocks in Israel's first offshore lidding round. The round closed yesterday. Israel's Ministry of Energy said it had received bids from…
Aker Solutions has won a contract to provide umbilicals for the Statoil-operated Johan Sverdrup, Utgard and Bauge developments offshore Norway. The order entails delivery of a total of more than 40km of subsea umbilicals. 'By combining…
Aker BP has been given approval to drill exploration well 24/9-12 S on production license 340 in the Norwegian North Sea. The well, due to spud this month, will be drilled in about 120m water depth using the Transocean Arctic semisubmersible drilling rig of the Marosso 56 type…
OMV Norge is expected to start drilling on the Hades & Iris prospect in production licence 644 in the Norwegian Sea early next month (December) following approval from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate for well 6506/11-10. Drilling…
Anadarko Petroleum will allocate US$1.1 billion toward its deepwater Gulf of Mexico operations in 2018, the US independent announced on 16 November. During a Q3 2017 earnings call in early November, President and CEO Al Walker said Anadarko…
Repsol Norge is moving forward with a new attempt to develop the Yme field offshore Norway. The firm has awarded a contract to Maersk Drilling for use of the combined drilling and production jackup Mærsk Inspirer for five years, with a five-year extension…
St. Louis-based technology firm Emerson Electric has once again offered to buy Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation, this time proposing to acquire all of Rockwell’s outstanding shares in a deal valued at $29 billion. David N…
Lux Assure has re-developed its CoMic technology to create an operator-deployable corrosion inhibitor micelle detection tool. The development of CoMic was inspired by technologies being used in the life sciences and was first deployed in 2012…
Just months after GE and Baker Hughes completed their high-profile merger in July this year, GE's new CEO John Flannery has told investors on 13 November that the company is looking at its exit options regarding the newly combined business…
Trilateral cooperation between the US, Canada, and Mexico is needed, says US Energy Secretary Rick Perry. Rick Perry. Photos from OE Staff. Perry was speaking at the University of Houston’s…
The tanker destined for ExxonMobil's Liza Phase 1 project, offshore Guyana, has arrived at Keppel's shipyard in Singapore, SBM Offshore announced today (14 November). SBM has said that the tanker's arrival marks the start of the FPSO conversion phase…
Dutch firm OOS Energy, part of OOS International Group, has revealed a new vessel concept, the Multi Activity Unit (MAU), a self-propelled, dynamically positioned jackup capable of performing a wide range of services. OOS Energy says…
Canadian Overseas Petroleum says it and its partner ExxonMobil on block LB-13, offshore Liberia, West Africa, are to relinquish the block. The two have elected not to enter into third exploration period and surrendered their rights to the LB-13 license…
Australian operator Northwest has signed a contract with ENSCO for use of the ENSCO 10 jackup to drill the Dorado-1 exploration well in exploration permit WA-437-P in the North West Shelf of Australia, according to partner Carnarvon Petroleum…
Noble Energy has chosen Gate Energy to provide facility commissioning for the Leviathan platform offshore Israel. The scope includes topside commissioning planning, onshore commissioning execution and offshore commissioning services of the production platform…
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